Ringling Underground // March
Schedule
Thu Mar 06 2025 at 08:00 pm to 11:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
The Ringling | Sarasota, FL
Enjoy live music, art and atmosphere in the Museum of Art Courtyard during Ringling Underground 8-11 PM. This event features an eclectic mix of local, regional, and national live music.March 6th - Featured Bands
8pm OPTIMYSTIC! & Ananda Rose (SRQ/ NYC) Original set
OPTIMYSTIC! is a Hip Hop & Indie Pop traveling performance artist. His subject matter explores themes like mindfulness & meditation, as well as healing, self-empowerment & collective transformation. Sonically ranging from high-energy bangers to chill & introspective cuts, the Music hits across the spectrum. With grooving beats intentionally tuned to healing frequencies, minds & hearts are open to connect while bodies are invited to dance! @optimysticislove
Ananda Rose channels the meaning of her name—eternal bliss and beauty—through Hip Hop, blending lyricism, performance, and production to inspire love and life. A New York City native who began her journey with Brooklyn Wildlife, she has graced stages from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe to venues across California, Puerto Rico, and Miami. Now based in St. Petersburg, Ananda draws on influences from Jazz, Motown, Soul, and more, delivering a genre-defying sound. With a voice like butter and a commanding presence, she captivates audiences, leaving them soothed and inspired. @anandarosemusic
9pm Hot Honey (TPA)
Hot Honey is a Tampa-based indie-rock band blending indie-pop with alternative undertones. Drawing inspiration from the raw emotion of Alanis Morissette, the storytelling of Lucy Dacus, and the energetic dynamism of Paramore, their sound is a vibrant mix of upbeat anthems and reflective ballads.
Consisting of Elyse Ruel (Vocals/Guitar), Morgan Matlaga (Guitar), Giani Chavez (Bass), and Bailey Chavez (Drums), Hot Honey crafts music that is both deeply personal and resonant, creating a dynamic listening experience that’s as emotionally charged as it is sonically captivating.
10pm Laney Jones (Nashville)
Independent rock n roll from the backstreets of Nashville, Tennessee.
Laney Jones and the Spirits have big heart. It's undeniable watching Jones who usually performs on her gnarly 1960s Sears Roebuck Silvertone guitar with her life and musical partner (Brian Dowd) holding the heartbeat on the drums.
They're "everything that’s good about rock and roll” says GRAMMY-winning icon Lucinda Williams.
And like Williams, Jones's road has been hard fought. Cutting their teeth on mics literally and metaphorically across the US for the past decade, Jones's free-wheeling, do-it-yourself lifestyle is the stuff of modern folklore. With few prospects when the Florida-raised couple first moved to Nashville in 2017, they made rent by stacking beers at the local Piggly Wiggly. A chameleon of a songwriter, Jones has since found other ways to pay the bills, licensing songs for pop projects to the likes of Guinness and Google, but the music the couple creates cuts deeper than that. It's personal.
And nothing shows more clearly the spirit of their work than one of their latest self-produced release, the aptly titled “Feel Something”
“If everything was perfect, and we lived just like a king, I don’t know if it would matter, babe, I don’t know if I could sing. It’s the ripping of my heart out – the flicker of a dream – that binds us to tomorrow and makes us feel something.”
Catchy, yet raw and arrestingly sincere, it's no wonder Jones's cult following has been steadily growing since the release of their seminal record Stories Up High (2022) produced by Andrjia Tokic (Alabama Shakes, Langhorne Slim) of the famed Bomb Shelter in East Nashville.
From opening up for bands like Kurt Vile and the Heartless Bastards, to officially showcasing at this past year's SXSW, Laney Jones and the Spirits’s live punk energy and heart-on-their-sleeves mentality is something that you just gotta witness for yourself.
Event is possible with partners:
Moxie Productions SRQ, Talent Buyer
LJ Productions with sound and lighting
